KHÁNH HÒA — Police in the central province of Khánh Hòa on Thursday handed over to the police of China two Chinese men wanted by the police of Maoming city, Guangdong province.

Xie Jin Ping, born in 1976, and Xie Ying Po, born in 1979, were arrested in an apartment in Lộc Thọ Ward in Nha Trang City.

They were charged with allegedly organising and leading criminal gangs, opening illegal casinos, organising wildlife trafficking, deliberately causing injuries and illegally detaining people resulting in deaths.

The Ministry of Public Security in China had sought Việt Nam’s support to hunt down the duo.

Khánh Hòa, which has had more than 700,000 Chinese tourists so far this year, is becoming a haven for criminals who enter the province as tourists.

In November 2017, the provincial police arrested two wanted Chinese criminals belonging to China’s Guangzhou province. In June last year, two other Chinese criminals from Guangdong province surrendered to the Khánh Hòa police. — VNS